Word: sit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...miss this show. And sit near the front--the chorus is worth it. The ones who sing are covered up with lots of clothes, and stuck in the background, so that's all right...
Chew our pipestem, and sit and stail, Watelling them, pretty and ohic and sweet...
...further consolidation of western transportation was not invisible, if the Interstate Commerce Commission should approve Mr. James's present plan. A web connecting west and midwest by north and south is already dominated, and might well be directed, by this financier who, though never a railroad man, can sit in his office and evolve plans "to build up the territory" as readily as he would take a trick at the helm of one of his yachts; as earnestly as he would inquire into and relieve the finances of one of his many religious charities...
...current issue of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin Judge Henry N. Blake, LL.B. '58, has printed a list of the Harvard men who will sit in the United States Senate when the elections of last November go into effect. The list follows...
...expressed to Judge Landis. The baseball commissioner listened with a foxlike expression. He had on a wing collar and he chewed a derelict cigar. Sometimes he glanced at a figure lolling obscurely in the back of the room. It was Will Rogers, Mayor of Beverly Hills, who refused to sit in a more conspicuous place because "he had been able to keep out of this thing so far." When Risberg got through, the accused players spent four hours denying everything he had said about them. It was true, they said, that the White Sox had paid some money to Detroit...